Life cycle of a grasshopper
A grasshopper goes through three stages in its life –
egg, nymph, and adult grasshopper.
The grasshopper nymph looks like a small adult, but it
has no wings.
Adult
grasshoppers
mate.
LATE
SUMMER/FALL:
Eggs laid in a
hole in the
ground.
1
2
Adult
grasshopper
emerges.
7
6
5
Grasshopper
eventually
dies.
Nymph molts (sheds its outer
skin) five or six times.
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3
4
SPRING: Eggs
hatch and young
nymphs emerge.
Nymph feeds
and grows.